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Monthly Printmaking Series: Monotypes-Inspired by Nature taught by Diana Eicher
June 7, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 12:30 pm
IN PERSON
Are you looking forward to vibrancy of nature in summer? Are you interested in exploring floral and plant ideas through printmaking? Learn how to use the plant leaves and/or create your own positive/negative stencil shapes of leaves from acetate for a more painterly approach. Monotypes are created by brushing or rolling ink on a plate or onto leaves to create your own unique print. Students can experiment with creating prints by using a printing press or print by hand. Techniques will be demonstrated and all materials will be provided. Non-toxic water based inks will be used.
Classes have a limited space available and some fill quickly. Decisions about whether to cancel a class or add another session are typically made one week prior to the start of a class. If a class you are interested in is full we will have a waiting list and will contact you if a space opens up. If a class is cancelled due to low enrollment (fewer than 4 registrations) all registrations will be promptly refunded.
Ticket Instruction: You must choose a quantity to activate “get tickets”. To pay for a class registration with a Wet Paint gift card, please call 651-698-6431
Diana Joanne Eicher, received her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Hawaii, and her BA in Painting from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Diana studied painting in Italian at the Accademia di Belle Arti, in Venice, Italy and aluminum plate lithography at Tamarind Institute. Diana is the Director of the Printmaking and Papermaking Studios at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and oversees with the studios for books, intaglio, letterpress, lithography, papermaking, photogravure, screenprinting, and woodcut. Eicher has taught at the Honolulu Printmaking Workshop, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, the Minneapolis Community and Technical College, The Ox-Bow School of Art: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Textile Center of Minnesota, and the University of Hawaii. Diana has been a teaching artist for Speedball Art Products and Akua Printmaking Inks. Diana had a solo show of her work, “To Shanghai: Recent Work by Diana Eicher” at Donghua University in Shanghai, China that included 70 works of art. Her most current project is a “Glossary of Printmaking Terms in English and Chinese” that took her 10 years to write and was published by Donghua University Press, Shanghai, China. Eicher has presented 12 papers, lectures, and exhibitions, in the United States and internationally and has exhibited her work in over 98 group and solo exhibitions.
dianaeicher@me.com
